On Friday’s “Finnerty,” Michael Knowles argued the DSA has “effectively taken over” the Democratic Party and claimed Democratic candidates are running as moderates before governing with a more radical left-wing agenda.
A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. The post Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Politics Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images Is it politically possible for Congress to reassert its constitutional war powers? What would it take? Let’s quickly analyze why congressional war powers have become so degraded. The vast expansion of American international commitments following the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War necessarily tended to encourage delegation of war powers to…Open
A new book reveals the hubris and ignorance that turned the War on Terror into a disaster. The post In the Wake of Bush’s Failures appeared first on The American Conservative .
War War In the Wake of Bush’s Failures A new book reveals the hubris and ignorance that turned the War on Terror into a disaster. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror, by Peter Bergen with David Sterman, W.W. Norton & Company, 401 pages. No one can forget seeing the Twin Towers collapse and the Pentagon burn. We were glued to televisions and radios before the advent of smartphones. We were terrified, confused, wounded, and, as the initial shock began to subside, vengeful. Our collective sense of safety…Open
Public pressure to limit immigration has prompted Conservative populist gains across Europe.
Anthropic disrupts malicious plots using its Claude program, like attempts to test weapons systems, develop new drone tactics, and conduct dangerous biological research, as debate over AI safety intensifies.
Trump counterterrorism chief Seb Gorka blasts Jeh Johnson, Mike Chertoff as "cretins or you know clinical imbeciles."
Twenty-five years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil, choices by school districts, city officials and news organizations about how to describe 9/11 are shaping what a generation with no memory of that day learns about who attacked America and why.
Chicago lawmaker said about 80 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot in the 2024 election.
MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart looks at the truly bizarre moment from Trump's fake midterm convention where he had his supports promise to "cheat" in the midterm elections, and the very real threat Trump could pose if Republicans lose in November.
Jacob Soboroff remembers 9/11 as a college freshman at NYU, sharing his coincidental realization.